All Quotes

Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.
‐‐ Jane McGonigal

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
‐‐ Lena Dunham

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams

Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
‐‐ Ron Jaworski

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
‐‐ Shawn Achor

Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.
‐‐ Jose Garces

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
‐‐ James Wolfe

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
‐‐ Steve Vai

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
‐‐ Nicolas Berggruen

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
‐‐ Eli Roth

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
‐‐ John Lennon

Possession of the pure synthetic specimens of the anthocyanidins and chief anthocyanins enabled my wife and me to devise quick tests for these colouring matters which can be used with the material from a few flower petals.
‐‐ Robert Robinson

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
‐‐ George Meredith

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
‐‐ John Wesley Powell

Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
‐‐ Shirley Manson

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
‐‐ Mo Yan

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
‐‐ Graham Swift

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.
‐‐ Jack Dee

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
‐‐ Rita Coolidge

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
‐‐ John Bercow

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.
‐‐ Russell Smith

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.
‐‐ John Bright

'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed

Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
‐‐ Hari Kondabolu

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
‐‐ Mira Nair

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.
‐‐ Lisa Gardner

Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
‐‐ Maya Beiser

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
‐‐ John Berger

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
‐‐ David Guterson

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
‐‐ Robert Hewison

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
‐‐ Larry Wall